Since 2009, Disney has owned the entertainment arm of Marvel, meaning it has full rights to the Marvel characters, such as Iron Man, Spiderman, Thor, and anything else the company creates. Sadly, this means Disney can also kill off things. Today, Disney has announced the two Marvel: Avengers Alliance games will be shutting down on September 30.

Disney says it is no longer accepting new in-app purchases for either games, but they will remain available to play until the end of the month. The original game has already been taken off Google Play, but its sequel has remained up, at least for the time being. Since Disney says both games will no longer be available for download, it's likely that Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 will disappear soon as well, making it just six months since it came out of beta.

The media company doesn't give a reason for the shut down, other than "we feel it’s best to focus our energy and resources into making new games and digital experiences for our fans and community." While it's sad to see popular games closing, if it means something better comes out in the future, maybe it's not all bad.

Comments

Gerardo Sarabia

Kill all the things.

T4rd

Isn't this the game a lot of reviewers use to bench a new phone because it basically runs like garbage on everything?

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I snorted

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3223

I think that would be marvel future fight. A game which I have been spending a ton of time and money over the past year on. Almost every phone plays it very badly due to the graphics requirement and/or lack of optimization. It runs especially badly on snapdragon phones though.

vyktorjonas

Disney doesn't quite have *all the rights* to spiderman, Sony does, like F4, but that's irrelevant

On topic: Why do they do that? Even if it's no longer being updated, they could still make lots of money from in-apps by just leaving it there

T4rd

Probably because it could cost them much more in lost sales on future games because of their lack of support in their current/previous games, so they'd rather not hurt their reputation and pull it if they don't plan on maintaining it.

Pedro o Raposo

That's the cinematic rights. For other media formats Marvel still have the rights to basically everything.

Ah, the wonders of all-digital content and the advantages it was meant to bring to the consumers... "no more boxes, no more dusty cartridges stuck in your bedroom drawer's corners, no more scratched disks, blah blah blah".

This is House of the Dead Overkill TLR and Lawless all over again, games I loved and spent time and money in just to find out after switching to a newer device and downloading 'em back that I could indeed install, but won't run... despite being essentially single-player affairs with just a bit of MP interaction in the case of Lawless for -not necessary to progress at all if you're good at it, which I was- character assist during the shootouts.